Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The designer of the Rollei 35 Heinz Waaske offered the camera prototype to Leitz - and others - but they declined. All the best! Raimo K Personal photography homepage at: http://www.uusikaupunki.fi/~raikorho ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lawrence Zeitlin" <lrzeitlin@aol.com> To: <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: [Leica] Leica size > Mark writes: > > To me the Leica philosophy of camera size went out with the M system in > 1954. > To me by far the TRUE size of a Leica is the size of a Barnack. A Leica > thread mount camera. Fits in your pocket. Not so M. too big. Clunky. > > ------ > > The Barnack Leicas won't fit in any normal pocket unless they have a > collapsible Elmar lens. For me the ideal pocket camera is the Rollei 35SE. > The lens is better than the Elmar too. Leica once built prototypes of a > Rollei 35 size camera but abandoned it in favor of the M. > > Larry Z > >